ANALYSIS: How COVID-19 is exposing Australia's entrenched health inequalities
At the same time, many of these people live in large, multigenerational households, which means they are not easily able to isolate themselves from others if they become exposed to the virus.
"Some families will have two people in a two-storey mansion, and some families will have 10 essential workers … [with] two or three people in the same bedroom sleeping at night," she says.Eligible residents can apply for a $320 payment if they have to get tested for COVID and self-isolate. , were introduced in Sydney's COVID-19 hotspot areas in a bid to reduce transmission. Yesterday the exercise limit was lifted.
"Things like a family who are already vulnerable, struggling with a child who needs therapy, who are holed up in a small flat and not able to get a break from each other." "One of the things we also have to note about [this region] is that there are a higher proportion of people who have had dealings with the criminal justice system," he says.
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